Today in ARB: @irapley.bsky.social reviews “The Ryukyu islands” by Gregory Smits @uchicagopress.bsky.social & “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi (JPIC) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-ryukyu-i...
Happy to share a new paper with @awitschas.bsky.social & @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social.
We introduce AI resignation as a form of subjectivity that hollows out young people’s self-efficacy and, as an affective formation, sustains power in digital capitalism.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Mayor Ken Sim has said he was shown a photo that led to him making a false accusation against Coun. Sean Orr.
There IS a fake AI image that came out around Christmas that sort of matches the allegations. @kehyslop.bsky.social asked Sim about this yesterday. #vanpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
Great context from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social.
Khaled and Raneen have both have been accepted into a Canadian university to continue their studies in medicine, but a major stumbling block has been Canada’s requirement that the students submit biometric data — fingerprints and photographs — to finalize their visa applications.
It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada.
Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism.
truthout.org/articles/can...
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
The 19th annual Coastal Dance Festival, honouring Indigenous stories, song, and dance from across Canada and around the world, is on now at @moaubc.bsky.social
At B.C.’s universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests.
A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canada’s go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
AAS Member Spotlight: Vincent Chan
Vincent Chan has been an AAS Member since May 2025 and works as a secondary school educator at Burnaby School District in British Columbia, Canada. He currently teaches courses...
Profile of Vincent Chan, a secondary school educator in Burnaby School District, featured in the Association for Asian Studies Member Spotlight.
Ahead of #AAS2026, we have a Vancouver local in the AAS Member Spotlight! Vincent Chan teaches secondary school in British Columbia and looks forward to meeting other members at the Annual Conference next week.
https://bit.ly/AAS-Chan
AI翻訳 in a red circle with a slash through it
I made this for a talk I'm giving, but maybe you can use it, too?
Repost from Good Shepherd Collective
This is the playbook
from Good Shepherd Collective on x:
“This is a photo of Ghandi Hospital in Tehran, Iran after being damaged by nearby airstrikes on March 1, 2026. Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA.”
I got a discount code for sales of my book in March!
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What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.
36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
What is inspiring is how various members of that same linguistic group (Chinese in this case) + the larger community would find this tactic & behavior from an elected council member unacceptable in a multicultural democracy, call it out, & seek accountability 2/3
Registration for the "Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany's LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures" online conference is now live! Sign up to join us 30 - 31 March (Australia: 31 March - 1 April). With speakers from 6 (!) time zones & keynotes from Jonah Garde & Camilla Smith!
Online Lecture Series
Menopause in Heian-Period Women
Presented by Yuko Kawamura
bungaku-report.com/heianjosei-0...
One side unilaterally and hastily deciding what Indigenous rights may or may not mean is just peak settler colonial
The BC government is moving extraordinarily fast to change DRIPA. "Warp speed," some might say
Premier David Eby vowed to alter the law and block courts from ruling on it in early December. The gov's plan is to pass the changes by end of May
In the legislative world, that's a big hurry #bcpoli
Cover: Age and Immigration Policy in Canada: Toward an Equitable Approach, by Christina Clark-Kazak. Illustration: text appears in red, set inside boxes of various sizes with red borders. The background has the colour and texture of old paper. Beside the cover, in thin red text, it reads Open Access Edition with an orange open lock logo.
Now available in paperback and Open Access download, “Age and Immigration Policy in Canada” by Christina Clark-Kazak is the first comprehensive analysis of age discrimination in Canadian immigration law and policy. bit.ly/4cCw5tD #cdnlaw
The Carney government has cut the only funding program for community archives, cut funding for access to information, and cutting 56 jobs. Harper made very similar cuts in 2012: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012... @thetyee.ca
Academic job announcement! Stony Brook University is hiring a fellow in South Asian and South Asian American Studies.
Good gig in a good department, come be my colleague. Can convert to tenure-track after two years.
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asia...
The Excremental Imagination: Disgust, Compassion, and Laughter in Medieval Japan
by Rajyashree Pandey｜UH Press uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-ex...
Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan
Joshua Schlachet｜UH Press uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/nouris...
Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic
By Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe | University of Michigan Press press.umich.edu/Books/S/Supe...
Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question
Sakura Christmas｜The University of Chicago Press
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
